NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has summoned executives of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Reliance Jio Infocomm on Friday to discuss the bitter feud around interconnection.

The Cellular Operators Association of India, which represents GSM telcos including Airtel, Vodafone, Idea as well as Jio, Thursday responded by urging Trai to call other member telcos besides the three.“We believe that the issue pertains to all members of COAI and not limited to the three operators. We therefore request Trai to invite all members of COAI for this meeting,” the association said in a letter dated September 8.

The meeting would come within four days of Reliance Jio's commercial launch. While Jio has cried foul over the denial on part of the incumbent operators to provide it sufficient interconnect to complete calls on its network, incumbent operators- Bharti, Vodafone and Idea- have flatly refused to give extra points of interconnect to Jio claiming that the traffic imbalance emanating from Jio's network was choking their networks.

Both the sides have written to the telecom regulator as well as the department of telecom (DoT) explaining their side of the story.However, the DoT has refused to intervene and has asked the warring telcos to approach the telecom regulator, as the matter of interconnect comes under the regulator's domain.

Jio has complained that despite signing commercial agreements with all telcos, it is being targeted by the incumbent operators who wish to sabotage its entry into telecom.

Incumbents say they do not possess the financial or network resources to handle the imbalance of traffic generated through Jio's network and hence are not 'obliged' to provide it additional capacity.

At present all Jio subscribers enjoy free voice and data services, a promotional offer that will extend till December end. Thereafter, Jio will continue to provide free voice services and charge as low as Rs 50 per GB to its data subscribers who opt for the tariff packages which combine voice, mobile data and Wi-Fi.

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